Check If an IP Address is a Known Threat using Java

2 min readApr 4, 2022

Something fishy about that IP? If it’s a common threat in disguise, our IP threat detection API can find that out for you by checking against known bad IP’s, botnets, compromised servers, and more. As indicated in the sample response model below, this API will let you know if an IP string contained a threat or not, and — if a threat was indeed detected — the specific type of threat will be identified too.

{
  "IsThreat": true,
  "ThreatType": "string"
}

To take advantage of this API using Java (installation with Maven), simply copy from the below code samples that we’ve included from the Cloudmersive API Console page (where snippets for installation with Gradle are also available).

First, add a reference to the pom.xml repository:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>jitpack.io</id>
        <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Then, add one to the dependency in pom.xml:

<dependencies>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.Cloudmersive</groupId>
    <artifactId>Cloudmersive.APIClient.Java</artifactId>
    <version>v4.25</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

Finally, add the import classes & call the function:

// Import classes:
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.ApiClient;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.ApiException;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.Configuration;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.auth.*;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.NetworkThreatDetectionApi;ApiClient defaultClient = Configuration.getDefaultApiClient();// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
ApiKeyAuth Apikey = (ApiKeyAuth) defaultClient.getAuthentication("Apikey");
Apikey.setApiKey("YOUR API KEY");
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.setApiKeyPrefix("Token");NetworkThreatDetectionApi apiInstance = new NetworkThreatDetectionApi();
String value = "value_example"; // String | IP address to check, e.g. \"55.55.55.55\".  The input is a string so be sure to enclose it in double-quotes.
try {
    IPThreatDetectionResponse result = apiInstance.networkThreatDetectionIsThreat(value);
    System.out.println(result);
} catch (ApiException e) {
    System.err.println("Exception when calling NetworkThreatDetectionApi#networkThreatDetectionIsThreat");
    e.printStackTrace();
}

Easy as can be — your threat profile just improved.

Check If an IP Address is a Known Threat using Java

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